Hit-run Driver Kills Tow-truck Operator

January 28, 1985

A 27-year-old tow-truck driver was killed Sunday when he was hit by a car as he was helping a motorist on the Kennedy Expressway. The victim was identified as Michael Pavisich., an employee of Frank`s Union 76 Service Station, 3214 N. Kimball Ave. Pavisich was helping a Rolling Meadows man whose car was disabled on the right shoulder of the northbound expressway near Berteau Avenue when he was hit by a car at about 4 a.m. and dragged about 50 feet, said Officer Thomas Shea. Police were searching for a blue Buick that fled north from the scene.